ap eng vocab 6-10
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- syllogism
- The format of a formal argument that consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
- pun
- A play on words that often has a comic effect
- jargon
- The specialized vocabulary of a particular group
- thesis
- The main idea of a piece of writing. It presents the author's assertion or claim.
- rhetorical question
- One that does not expect an explicit answer
- antimetabole
- The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
- narrator
- The speaker of a literary work.
- transition
- A word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph.
- onomatopoeia
- Words that sound like the sound they represent
- pacing
- The movement of a literary piece from one point or section to another.
- structure
- The organization and form of a work
- heuristic
- A systematic strategy or method for solving problems
- apostrophe
- Type of soliloquy where nature is addressed as though human
- personification
- The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts.
- parody
- A comic imitation of a work taht ridicules the original.
- anadiplosis
- The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.
- plot
- A sequence of events in a literary work
- anaphora
- The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.
- appositive
- A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning.
- ethos
- The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator.
- oxymoron
- an image of contradictory terms
- point of view
- The method of narration in a literary work
- persausion
- A type of argument that has as its goal an action on the part of the audience.
- voice
- Refers to the relationship between a sentence's subject and verb, as well as to the total "sound" of a writer's style.
- epithet
- A word or phrase adding a characteristic to a person's name- for example. " Richard the lion-hearted" or an abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
- tone
- The author's attitude toward his subject
- understatement
- The opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.
- stanza
- A unit of a poem, similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the poem.
- pedantic
- A term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing
- epistrophe
- The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses - for example, " they saw no evil, they spoke no evil, and they heard no evil."
- setting
- The time and place of a literary work
- double entendre
- The double ( or multiple) meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous.
- pathos
- The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience
- reduction ad absurdum
- The latin for " to reduce the absurd"
- synecdoche
- A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representive of the whole
- antagonist
- One who contends against another; an adversary
- simile
- An indirect comparison that uses the words like or as to link the differing items in the comparison
- asyndeton
- The omission of conjunctions between related clauses
- theme
- The underlying ideas the author illustrates through the characterization, motifs, language, plot, etc.
- motif
- The repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work used to develop theme or characters.
- assonance
- The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words.
- enthymeme
- Logical reasoning with one premise by the overall context of the passage
- logos
- The appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its argument or central ideas.
- satire
- A mode of writing based on ridicule, that criticizes the foibles of society without necessarily offering a solution
- symbol
- something in a literary work that stands for something else.
- anthimeria
- The substitution of one part of speech for another
- syntax
- The grammatical structure of prose and poetry
- genre
- A piece of writing classified by type - for example, letter, narrative, eulogy, or editorial.
- parable
- A story that operates on more than one level and usually teaches a moral lesson.
- style
- The unique way an auther presents his ideas. Diction, Syntax, imagery, Structure, and content contribute to this.
- stage directions
- The specific instructions a playwright includes concerning sets, characterization, delivery..etc
- sarcasm
- A comic technique that ridicules through caustic language
- apologist
- A person or character who makes a case for some controversial, even contentious position
- periodic sentence
- Presents its main clause at the end for emphasis and variety.
- litotes
- understatement- for example, " Her performance ran the gamut of emotion from A to B".